Specter & Casey vote to advance health care legislation…
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We'll have lots of time to remember that as we're standing in ever-longer lines to receive worse and more expensive medical care.
Dump them both. They really stink. Stop apologizing for Casey. He was ’sold’ as being pro-life. He’s more than proved he’s not. Plus, he’s one dumb dude.
Let me be one of the first to tell all the Casey supporters, "I TOLD YOU SO!" Oh yeah, what's the other thing you used to say, "Bobby is just like his father." You were wrong then and you're wrong now. We're in for some very rough times because you wouldn't listen when we told the truth, you called us liars. God Help Us and God Help the Next Generation who is being saddled with this huge mess! George and Rick keep looking better and better, I really miss them!
Back bench Bobby is worse than his dad. And we are the losers.
Saying that George Bush and Rick Santorum didn't saddle my generation is ludicrous. The true cost of this record deficit, which was a surplus when Clinton left office, comes from George and Rick's little adventure in Iraq, costing about 1 trillion dollars and nearly 5,000 lives (most of kids my age and younger, I'm 22) while simultaneously cuting taxes. You cannot just go to war and not pay for it. Why didn't it show up on the balance sheet. They intentionally left it off. No doubt I have reservations about the healthcare legislation in Congress but CBO says it reduces the deficit. Needless to say I really don't miss George and Rick.
This is why Santorum didn't win http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/senator-r... because he's willing to lie about issues like this
Santorum didn’t win because he targeted and took down sacred lefty Daschle, so all the lefty loons targeted him. You, and whoever, wanted Casey, so be caeful what you wish for. You think Bush and Santorum ‘look bad’? Current gang has made the deficit bigger by a factor of 4 or 5, and it’s growing. Clinton lived on the economy of the Reagan years, since economies go in 10 year cycles. Finally, why would anyone hold up Bill Clinton as a bastion of anything, except disgust? There. That’ll do for now. Any others want to argue?
Santorum lost by 18 points thats more than going after Democratic Leadership can explain for in my book and I believe the economy was in another recession in 1992 when Clinton took office coming off a 10 year cycle from Regan.
Santorum lost because he thumbed his nose at his base by endorsing and actively campaigning for Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey. It's that simple.
Really Dolley? The electoral data points to him losing the suburban areas. The so called moderate areas. Santorum lost because he got crushed in Chester, Montgomery, Delaware and Bucks when he won by decent margins there in 1994 and 2000. Santorum saw a marginal drop in his vote percentage in the more conservative areas of the state.
While I am sure he lost some support because of his endorsement of Specter, I think a bigger reason he lost in 2006 has to do with the fact he shifted his issue focus from his first term to his second term. In his first term, he was focused on economic issues. In his second term, he bought into the compassionate conservative/culture warrior BS. That stuff sends the suburbanites into panicked fits.
In the end, Rick Santorum could please nobody and only got 42 percent because of it.
Excellent explanation and that is also why I have my doubts about a Pat Toomey sucess he is going to have trouble winning the southeast especially if Sestak is elected I think he is a stronger canidate in that area.
I knew the Rick bashers would come out of the woodwork. Compare Rick and Bobby – compare George and Barack. Sure they made mistakes but I believe they felt they were trying to help this country, not destroy this country like the present Administration.
Toomey wins as long as this debate stays on the economy. SEPA resembles northern Virginia and parts of New Jersey. The Republicans did well in both areas in 2007 by focusing on the economy, taxes, spending restraint, etc…
Republicans are never going to win suburban areas on culture issues unless its the law and order issue. Toomey needs to focus on taxes, spending and competency. If he does, he wins. If he gets into a culture war with Specter or Sestak, we should not fight this election.
Bush and Obama are one in the same in my book.
Thats the whole point and the thing I don't understand…Republicans and leftover Bush supporters the few that are out there are acting like this administarion is intentionally destroying America. No they are just doing what they feel is right, just like Bush. Debate the issues because when we start debating how much certain presidents love America we get nowhere. Of course Bush was trying to help and of course Obama is trying to help just different ideas.
Danny Boy,
It looks like you took a left turn somewhere and got here by mistake.
I will not defend Ricky, because he deserves no defense. I hate to defend Bush because he has done so much that was wrong but up until we actually went to war, everyone in the Dem party were all calling for war and voted for it. Your party wanted war until it was 'Bush's war'. Then you tried to lose it on his watch. Well, guess what! Your party is now losing it and the lives of our troops while Obama puts everything else ahead of the war.
I can't speak for the others, but I will not give the huffington post a hit to read some nonsense posted there.